Six Ways to Onboard New Contributors
Onboarding new contributors is hard. There's so much they don't know. How is someone supposed to contribute when they don't know the codebase, the project infrastructure, community norms, or the specific people who can give them advice? Add in the fact that often new contributors have significant gaps in knowledge about the project's domain and/or the language(s) the project uses, and it's no wonder many new contributors get discouraged and give up.